For everyone who has ever needed Android, good news Voipac has ported Android 7.1 on the TinyRex module (support for other Rex boards coming soon). Instructions to install can be found here. For more information, contact VOIPAC >

As you know, there are Magnetometer, Accelerometer and Gyro sensor on OpenRex. I wanted to test how good it works. I made a simple Compass reading code and I am showing OpenRex orientation in 3D software called Blender. It’s really cool. Have a look. This video gives you and idea how you can do it too:

When we started iMX6 Rex project couple of years ago, it was always very hard for me to get the software work done. I am a hardware design engineer and we always had to wait for software guys to find some time to work on our boards. It was so frustrating, that I decided to learn it and then, I had to share it …

So, today I am officially releasing a new online course which I hope will find many of you useful. Enjoy!

It’s still a lot of work, but I hope you will like it I have created a separate openrexkit.org domain just for OpenRex Education Open Source Project. I dream, that together we can create a large community which will help teaching the next generations of young engineers, programmers, thinkers and creators. However, I can not do this alone

I need your help! If you are interested to help with OpenRex Education Project, simply sign up for our Community Mailing List. Initially, you can just watch / read the discussions and when you are ready and you feel you could help, join the conversation. Anything you will contribute with, is a huge help. There is a lot of things what you can choose from, it’s not only hardware design or software development, but you can correct spelling mistakes, help with graphics or promotion of OpenRex Education Project.

1) OpenRex PCB is in production. Components are in process of ordering. The status of OpenRex production can be find at VOIPAC website (see the blue notes on the bottom of the page): http://www.voipac.com/#iMX6-SBC-432431111

2) As you probably noticed, there was some delay in production of OpenRex. The longest delay was caused by Micrel (Microchip). During our tests, we find out, that KSZ9031 is not working properly in the temperatures below 0°C. We contacted Micrel and it took them 1.5 month to confirm, that it is a silicon issue. Therefore, in the final OpenRex boards we will be fitting KSZ9021 instead (pin to pin compatible replacement), which is working fine in the whole industrial temperature range (this change will be applied on TinyRex too). Additional 3 weeks delay is caused by PCB manufacturing company, which finally confirmed, that the OpenRex PCBs will be delivered in September. TinyRex is in full production.

4) We have also fantastic news Marian, one of our contributors, created a HDMI output support for the NXP Microcontroller. I am not sure if you have seen this video:

5) And the last news It is now official. We are preparing OpenRex Education Kit for Kids 12+ and for all enthusiastics who would like to play with it. Please, be aware, it’s not going to be cheap, as the OpenRex boards are quite expensive. We are preparing two educational kits: Basic for $199 USD and MAX for $299. Have a look at the box:

If you would like to help us with OpenRex Education Kit development, please send me an email (see our contact page). It’s all open source, so everyone willing to help us to finish this idea is very welcome. If you would like to support the OpenRex Education kit by financial support, please let me know. All the support would be used to finish the kit and prepare awesome examples for kids.